PEDIATRICS Vol. 64 No. 2 August 1979, pp. 192-196
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Occult Fractures in the Production of Gait Disturbance in Childhood

Jonathan Singer MD1 and Richard Towbin MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Trauma to the lower extremities is the principal cause of gait disturbance in early childhood. Three cases are presented to emphasize the relative frequency of children hospitalized for diagnostic evaluation of altered gait who have occult fractures. The cases may refresh the primary physician of the variables that serve as obstacles to accurate diagnosis.

Submitted on August 17, 1978
Accepted on December 5, 1978